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Expand Up @@ -16,8 +16,13 @@ If a dataset on the Hub is tied to a [supported library](./datasets-libraries),

## Using the Hugging Face Client Library

You can use the [`huggingface_hub`](/docs/huggingface_hub) library to create, delete, update and retrieve information from repos. You can also download files from repos or integrate them into your library! For example, you can quickly load a CSV dataset with a few lines using Pandas.
You can use the [`huggingface_hub`](/docs/huggingface_hub) library to create, delete, update and retrieve information from repos. For example, to download the `HuggingFaceH4/ultrachat_200k` dataset from the command line, run
```bash
huggingface-cli download HuggingFaceH4/ultrachat_200k --repo-type dataset
```
See the [huggingface-cli download documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/en/guides/cli#download-a-dataset-or-a-space) for more information.

You can also integrate this into your own library! For example, you can quickly load a CSV dataset with a few lines using Pandas.
```py
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
import pandas as pd
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